Hong Kong Land Registry Monday announced that the number of sale and purchase agreements for all building units received for registration in March was 13,501, up 8.9 percent on February and 6.3 percent on March last year. The 12-month moving average for March was 13,337, up 0.5 percent on the 12-month moving average for February and 4.2 percent on that fo...
Toyota announced Wednesday that it had sold the one millionth Prius hybrid in U.S., as rising fuel prices have further stimulated demand, the Detnews reported. "Since the Prius went on sale eleven years ago, not a year has gone by when it hasn't been the No. 1-selling hybrid vehicle in the U.S," said Bob Carter, Toyota vice president and general manager....
The Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-earth (Group) High-tech Co. (IMBREHT), China's leading rare earth producer, said on Wednesday that its net profit reached a record high of 750.74 million yuan (114.62 million U.S. dollars) in 2010 due to rising rare earth prices. This company's net profit was at 55.77 million yuan in 2009. The company attributed th...
Britain plans to open a branch of British Standard Institute in Indonesia which would pave way for Indonesian exports entering European market, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said here on Wednesay. The plan was announced by Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, who has been in a visit to Indonesia on April 5-7. The minister said that with the presen...
Vietnam Expo 2011, the 21st international trade fair,organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Vietnam Exhibition and Advertisement Joint Stock Company, opened here on Wednesday. Under the theme "Vietnam -- Integration and Development", Vietnam Expo 2011 displays agricultural, food processing products, wood-based products, decoration ...
DRIVEN by surging foreign trade, volumes at Mumbai's Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India's largest container operation, hit an all time high, rising five per cent to 4.27 million TEU in fiscal 2010-11. Maersk's JNPT port operator, APMT's Gateway Terminals' volume came to 1.85 million TEU, up from 1.76 million TEU the year before, reported Newar...
South Korea's exports of information technology products recorded a new high in the first quarter despite the political unrest in the Middle East and the devastating earthquake in Japan, a government report showed Tuesday. The nation's outbound shipments of IT products reached 37.5 billion U.S. dollars in the first three months of this year, up 9 percen...
South Korean trade minister Kim Jong- hoon on Monday made a public apology over translation errors found in the Korean text of a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU). "The government and the trade ministry are well aware of the seriousness of the mistakes," Kim said in a press briefing, extending his apology for 207 translation errors and omi...
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